How to Not Bulk Quadriceps (Video)

Streamlining your quads is a technique that you can really use to work those areas and still not look too bulky. Find out how to not bulk up your quadriceps with help from a certified personal trainer in this free video clip.

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Hi, my name is Holly Del Rosso. And this is how to not bulk quadriceps. If you're lifting a lot and doing a lot of squats and lunges. You might find that your quads are developing more than any other part of your body and it's showing off a little bit more than you want it to. I'm going to teach you, how you can really streamline your quads. So, you don't look so bulky and you have that look that you want, that's lean, toned and defined. For our first anti-bulking quad exercise, you're going to need a bench or a small step. Make sure the bench or the step doesn't go any higher than your hip length. You don't want that knee this high, you want to bring it down to hip length. So, you're going to start your feet together, you're just going to step up, drive the opposite knee and come back down. Same leg for 15 reps and then, you're going to alternate to the other side. Three sets of 15 reps of this. In our next exercise, you're going to use an AIREX Pad and you're just going to use your own body weight. Two sets of 25 reps, keeping the reps up high, is going to add resistance and it's going to help your quads to grow but not bulk. So, you're going to come down, knee, knee and you're going to step, step.So, what we're going to do is, we're going to alternate which leg goes down first. So, for the first 10 or 12, you can have your left leg go down first. And then, last 10 or 12, you can have your opposite leg go down first. So, in the opposite, you're going to go down and then, up, up.